Frank O'Connor, creative director of 343, gave a peek at some of the other Halo Legend shorts. Studio4 C's project, tentatively called "Origins," is a two-parter that's about 30 minutes long in total and tells the entire 100,000 year history of the Halo universe.

I was really sure that this was gonna suck when I first heard about it, but then I found out that Bones is doing one of the episodes. Now I absolutely want to see at least the Bones episode, those guys have done some really cool anime (Xam'd was very good) and I'm not a particularly big fan of anime.

Once again, I find myself not-excited by the material they release in an attempt to amp up my excitement. The only halo product I am irrationally crapping my pants for is ODST, and that's only because I feel like it will be what I had always wanted Halo 2 to be...

It's actually garnered interest for a few of my friends who didn't really want to get interested into the storyline from the games themselves. They see this as a segway into the Halo storyline that doesn't have to take 'away' from their playing time. Just watch it during movie time instead now. I guess I can see the draw.
Me personally, I'm thinking that the computer graphics animation seems a little hokey simply from the scene where the Spartan is sword dueling with another elite. That whole style of wielding a sword is definitely not how Spartans carry themselves in general. I see that as a glaring error to me personally. But we'll see when it comes out. I'm looking forward to the Forerunner story arc.